Russian Drawing Course Part 26: The Pipe Fold

[New Masters Academy]

In this part of the Russian Academic Drawing Program, we go over every individual construction of folds and how to apply them while working from a model from life. In this lesson, we cover how to analyze and render a pipe fold.

Students are encouraged to work from the NMA reference images and 3D viewer included on this page*.

Join Ukrainian-born artist Iliya Mirochnik as he passes on a 250-year-old academic method preserved at the Repin Academy in Saint Petersburg, Russia and seldom taught outside of the Academy and never before on camera.

The Russian Academic drawing and painting approaches were uninterrupted by the modern art movements that transformed representational art in the West, and as a result, they provide a unique and clear lineage to the greater art traditions of the past. As a powerful approach that is both constructive and depictive, it combines the two methods that prevail in contemporary representational art.

In this series of drawing courses, we have set out to condense the entire program, spanning over eight years into a logical, step-by-step procedure. We have made improvements and added resources and exercises to explicitly drive home the concepts that are required to work in this approach.

We have also structured the course so that it is not only useful for professional and experienced artists but also artists with no drawing experience whatsoever.

In the last part of our Russian Academic Drawing Course, Illya used his approach to explain the organic and important forms found in the face. In this next part, Drapery, we will delve into the different constructions of cloth, highlighting the effect that each one has.

The New Masters Academy Coaching Program directly supports this Course. If you enroll in the coaching program, you can request an artist trained in the Russian Academic Method including Iliya Mirochnik himself. Click here to enroll in the Coaching Program.

Materials

• Graphite pencils
• Kneaded and Hard Erasers
• Roll of Paper, Smooth Sketchbook paper
• Easel
• Light source

* Reference material is only available for premium subscriptions. If you don’t have premium access to the reference, you can pause the video when the reference is shown.

[Jad Saintbai]

please check my pipe fold

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by Jad Saintbai.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by Jad Saintbai.

[Jad Saintbai]

[David Durrans]

Hi,

 

It looks as though  Iliya sharpeners his charcoal pencil with a sharpener? I have tried but with no success, how does he sharpen the charcoal pencil?

 

Thanks for a wonderful course, Iliya.

 

David

[Daniel Daigle]

Hi David, Iliya uses this pencil sharpener
https://store.nma.art/product/long-point-pencil-sharpener/
However, soft charcoal is best sharpened with a knife because the charcoal is fragile. The harder charcoal should work great. I use this for wolfs carbon and it works flawlessly

[Po Man Leung]

May I ask what kind of charcoal pencil is Iliya using? Thanks.

[Daniel Daigle]

I believe Iliya was just grabbing pencils for this demo, using whatever worked in the moment. It looks like he used a Carbothello at one point, and a Black Wing at another and Conte a Paris and Vine Charcoal for the majority.

[STEPHEN PEARSON]

Hi there,
I am at the 10.50 minute mark of ‘Blocking in the Shadows and Halftones of the Pipe Fold and Ilyia says ‘for lack of a better word, ‘render it’.

My question is, does he mean this from a Construction or Artistic point of view?

Kind regards
Steve P

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